News

Our paper "Theory of cytoskeletal reorganization during crosslinker-mediated mitotic spindle assembly" was posted on the biorxiv preprint server today.

Christopher Edelmaier received a travel grant from the American Society for Cell Biology to present at the ASCB-EMBo meeting. Congratulations!

Hui-Shun Kuan's paper with Daniel Goldman's group at Georgia Tech on traffic jam avoidance in fire ant tunnel digging has been published in Science and covered in the New York Times , Washington Post , Houston Chronicle , SF Gate , Scientific American , Science News , Ars Technica , BBC , Cosmos , Discover , Popular Mechanics , and Quartz .

Meredith Betterton received project R01GM124371 from the NIGMS for experiments on kinesin-5 motors in spindle assembly. Congratulations!

Saad Ansari and Jeffrey Moore presented posters on their work at the EMBO Microtubule meeting in Heidelberg.

Members of the group went to the mountains for hiking and the group research retreat. We identified a promising location for our new headquarters (see photo).

Jeffrey Moore has completed his physics comps 3 exam. Congratulations!

Meredith Betterton received project DMR-1725065 from the NSF for theory of cytoskeletal length regulation and dynamics . Congratulations!

Today the group celebrated four graduating students: Christopher Edelmaier (physics PhD), Nicolas Santander (engineering physics BS), Michael Stefferson (physics PhD) and Garrek Stemo (physics BA magna cum laude). Congratulations!

Congratulations to Michael Stefferson for successfully defending his PhD thesis today.